Still more Englishes / Manfred Görlach.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Görlach, Manfred.

Series:

Varieties of English around the world. General series ; v. 28.

Varieties of English around the world. General series, 0172-7362 ; G28

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Variation--English-speaking countries.

English language.

English language--English-speaking countries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (254 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub., c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This monograph comprises eight papers, most of which originated as presentations given at international conferences or guest lectures. These papers deal with the problematic nature of English as a global language, and discuss what makes texts authentic and reliable for linguistic analysis, Scots in Ulster and in Scotland, forms and functions of English in Southeast Asia, the spread of rhyming slang, and varieties of ELT. The volume concludes with an annotated bibliography of the most important publications devoted to varieties of English around the world.

Contents:

Still More Englishes; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; List of figures; Foreword; Preface; List of Abbreviations; 1 Global English (?); 1.1 The problem; 1.2 English on its way to become a world language; 1.3 The increase in numbers of speakers; 1.4 The growing functions of international English; 1.5 Global English; 1.6 Attitudes; 1.7 The quality of English and educational implications; 1.8 The future of English; 1.9 The effect of English on other languages; 2 The problem of authentic language; 2.1 Introduction; 2.1.1 General concerns; 2.1.2 Lexicography

2.1.3 Grammars2.2 Data from varieties with incipient or attempted standardization; 2.2.1 Old English; 2.2.2 Belizean and other Caribbean Creoles; 2.2.3 Text type expansion in Tok Pisin; 2.2.4 From Ulster Scots to Ullans; 2.3 Language death; 2.3.1 Introduction; 2.3.2 Norn; 2.3.3 Samaná English; 2.3.4 Cimbrian; 2.4 Dialect; 2.4.1 Historical texts; 2.4.2 Modern dialectology; 2.4.3 Sociolinguistics; 2.5 Pidgins and Creoles; 2.5.1 Introduction; 2.5.2 Jamaican; 2.5.3 Nigerian Pidgin; 2.5.4 Chinese Pidgin; 2.6 Historical texts; 2.6.1 Problems of transmission; 2.6.2 Historical semi-authentic texts

2.6.3 Historizing English2.7 Literary texts; 2.7.1 Introduction; 2.7.2 Chaucer; 2.7.3 James I; 2.7.4 Renaissance 'dialect'; 2.7.5 18th-century Scots; 2.7.6 Black English; 2.7.7 Broken English; 2.7.8 Summary; 2.8 Epilogue; 3 Language and nation: linguistic identity in the history of English; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Historical aspects: Britain and Ireland; 3.2.1 The Middle Ages; 3.2.2 England and Wales 1430-2000; 3.2.3 Scotland; 3.2.4 Ireland 1803-2000; 3.3 English overseas; 3.3.1 Introduction; 3.3.2 The United States; 3.3.3 Canada; 3.3.4 The Caribbean; 3.3.5 West Africa; 3.3.6 South Africa

3.3.7 India and Southeast Asia3.3.8 Papua New Guinea; 3.4 Reactions to English in non-anglophone societies; 3.5 Conclusion; 4 Ulster Scots - a language?; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Criteria for 'language-ness'; 4.3 Are Low German and Jamaican useful parallels?; 4.4 The revival and revitalization of minority languages; 4.5 The demographic and sociohistorical position of Ulster Scots; 4.6 The codification and elaboration of Ullans; 4.7 The political implications; 4.8 The present discussion in Northern Ireland (1996-2000); 5 Scots - the view from outside; 5.1 Introduction

5.1.1 Attitudes in linguistics5.1.2 Ways to approach my topic; 5.2 The perception of Scots by English speakers; 5.2.1 Scotland and Scots as seen from England before 1603; 5.2.2 The Border ballads; 5.2.3 The 18th century; 5.2.4 The nineteenth century; 5.3 The contribution of outsiders; 5.3.1 Emigrant writing from overseas; 5.3.2 Scots as seen from non-anglophone countries; 6 English in Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, The Philippines ... a second or a foreign language?; 6.1 Introduction: ENL vs. ESL vs. EFL; 6.2 The British in East Asia; 6.3 Singapore; 6.4 Hong Kong: from ESL to EFL?

6.5 Malaysia and the Philippines

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [169]-227) and index.

ISBN:

9786613358288

9781283358286

128335828X

9789027275042

9027275041

OCLC:

769342318